I teach kendo in Tokyo

At night.

Nakato Endo dreamed again of the afternoon that changed his life.

When the knife was inserted into the man's body, he heard his mother screaming and crying.

The mother rushed over, hugged the dying man, and dragged him with all her strength to keep him away from Endo Nakato.

Nakato Endo didn't understand, she didn't understand why her mother wanted to protect this man who beat and scolded her all day long and often stayed away from home at night.

But he understood one thing, that is, he was very strong, strong enough to take away the lives of others at will.

The last teaching left by his master before his death echoed in Endo Nakato's ears: "A swordsman needs to step over the enemy's corpse to grow."

Is the man who fell in front of me an enemy? Yes, obviously, this man came back every day and took out the anger he suffered at the company on his mother. While beating her, he yelled, "I saved you, this lost bitch and your wild son."

Ever since Endo Nakato can remember, this man has never used curse words. It has always been the same. Endo Nakato's ears are almost ringing with pain.

In the past, Nakato Endo practiced swordplay with his master and would come back very late. Most of the time when he got home, the man would have already fallen asleep.

But since his master passed away, Endo Nakato was kicked out by his uncle who inherited the dojo.

"Your sword is full of evil. I can't leave you in our dojo." The uncle who has become the master teacher of the dojo looked at Endo Nakato coldly. "I also want to take back the vine my brother gave you." Pattern, from now on, the rattan pattern is not allowed to appear in your Dai pattern."

After the uncle finished speaking, the first senior brother and the second senior brother rushed up and held Nakato Endo down. Then the third senior sister, who had always been gentle, took the scissors and cut off a piece of the coat of arms on Nakato Endo's robe—— That was the part of the vine pattern given to him by his master.

Endo Nakato cried heartbreakingly at the time, but looking back now, he doesn't feel any pain at all.

He even threw away the remaining parts of the Daiwen that he once regarded as a treasure.

Today's Endo Churen are homeless wild dogs.

Especially after stabbing the knife into the man's heart, he even lost the last place he could stay.

Endo Nakato no longer looked at the woman who had become a stranger due to hysteria, and walked out with the bloody knife.

At that time, he lived on the fourth floor of a six-story apartment building, and the residents on the entire floor were office workers.

Nakato Endo opened the door, entered the corridor, and walked forward step by step.

To his left were closed doors.

To his right was the night sky of Tokyo, illuminated by neon lights and unable to see the stars.

Endo Nakato walked towards the stairwell step by step. He didn't know where he was going. He only remembered his master's last words.

A swordsman must step on the corpse of his enemy to grow.

He needed enemies, he needed bodies.

To become an invincible swordsman.

As for why he wants to become an invincible swordsman, it is of course because he has nothing but this now.

He moved forward step by step, holding a bloody knife in his hand.

Suddenly, the landlord ran up the stairs with a baseball bat in his hand.

The first thing he did when he went upstairs was yell: "What's going on? Who is shouting? Don't you know what time it is?"

Then the landlord saw Nakato Endo holding a sharp knife.

"Endo? What's wrong with you? Put down the knife! Quick!"

The uncle roared at Endo Nakato.

——It’s the enemy!

Endo rushed forward and drew his sword quickly and accurately.

But because he didn't consider that the knife in his hand was a kitchen knife at home, which was too short, the landlord didn't burp immediately. Instead, he covered the wound and ran away while making a sound like a slaughtering pig, leaving a bright red patch on the ground.

Nakato Endo did not pursue.

This person is so incompetent that he is not even qualified to be an enemy.

Endo moved on, went downstairs, and walked along the road in front of the apartment.

Everyone who saw him on the road ran away in panic, and no one was worth fighting.

Until he encountered a patrolman on a bicycle.

"Stop!" the patrolman yelled, drawing his gun and aiming at Endo, while reporting on the walkie-talkie, "The prisoner named by the police was found, about 13 to 14 years old, holding a sharp weapon..."

Endo rushed out, the kitchen knife in his hand reflecting the lights of Tokyo Tower in the distance.

The patrolman was shocked and pulled the trigger in desperation——

Endo turned his head to dodge the first shot, then kicked the ground with his right foot, forced to reverse the direction of the attack, and dodged the patrolman's second shot.

The bullet bounced off the road and shattered a street lamp in the distance——

The kitchen knife struck the patrolman's hand.

"Ahhhh!" the patrolman screamed.

But the knife hit the watch and failed to cut off the patrolman's hand.

The gun fell to the ground, but there was a chain attached to the holster on the patrolman's belt.

Endo wanted to pick up the gun, but several policemen on bicycles had already arrived from a distance.

"Surround him! He attacked the police! Use firearms at will!"

Endo turned around and ran away without thinking.

But after running a few blocks, Nakato Endo saw the police cordon.

The flashing police lights illuminated Endo's face, and the loudspeaker blared harshly to persuade him to surrender: "You have been surrounded! Put down your weapons immediately! Stop resisting!"

Nakato Endo stopped.

Even at night, he could clearly see the weapons in the hands of the police.

Behind the blocking line formed by police cars, an armored bus had just stopped, and heavily armed members of the Tokyo Special Mobile Force got out of the bus.

——This is undoubtedly the enemy.

Endo Nakato tightened his grip on the knife in his hand.

If he kills everyone present, he will definitely enter a new realm as a swordsman.

Maybe I can feel a little bit of the hem of Master's cloak.

Just when Endo was about to burn himself for the last time, that person appeared.

The man was wearing the kind of trench coat favored by detectives in detective dramas, holding an umbrella and walked out of the police cordon until he came to Nakato Endo.

The lights of the police car and the flashing police lights shone from behind him, outlining his figure, but the lights were too bright, leaving the man's face in relative darkness.

Only the faint red light from the cigarette on the man's mouth illuminated the sparse stubble around his mouth.

Only then did Nakato Endo realize that it was raining.

"Isn't this just a child, thirteen years old? Or fourteen years old? To use a gun to deal with such a child, the big shots above are too neurotic." The man's voice came through the rain curtain.

After that, he threw the cigarette on the ground, then changed the umbrella from his left hand to his right hand and closed it.

While he gathered the umbrella into a stick shape and tied it up, he continued: "I don't know what happened to you, but I can't let you walk on the street like this. This is my job.

"The pork chop rice at our Metropolitan Police Department is delicious. Many children like it. Do you want to have one?"

Nakato Endo rushed directly towards the detective. This time he considered the length of the knife, and he could definitely kill him with one blow...

The next moment, Endo's hand holding the knife was hit by an umbrella, and the force was so powerful that he knocked the knife out of his hand——

Endo didn't even see clearly how the detective took action. His field of vision was filled with the hems of the windbreaker flying up.

In a flash of lightning, the knife fell to the ground and raindrops fell on the detective's leather shoes.

Nakato Endo landed on the ground a few steps away.

He wanted to crawl towards his knife, but then dense footsteps immediately surrounded him. A pair of big hands pressed Endo's face to the ground from behind, his cheeks pressed against the rain-filled ground.

"Let me go!" Endo shouted instinctively.

However, this had the opposite effect. The hand pressing his head became harder, his cheek pressed closer to the ground, and his mouth deformed and cracked a small gap, and rainwater mixed with mud poured into his mouth.

At this time, the voice of the man in the trench coat penetrated his ears: "Don't be so harsh, you are just a child. Although you have been well trained, you are still just a child."

No, Endo thought, I am the strongest disciple under Master, I should have won!

I didn't win because——

Endo slowed down everything that happened at that moment in his mind.

In terms of pure skills, his side should be better. The detective was just much faster than Endo expected.

This shouldn't be - because in martial arts, young people will always have an advantage over old people. How could a thirteen-year-old child lose to a detective who looks fifty years old in terms of sheer speed?

At this moment, Endo Nakato understood that this was the unity of mind and skill that Master had said. This detective, like his master, has mastered this mysterious and profound martial arts secret.

This is the reason why Master didn’t give him permission to pass it on!

"Before you understand the unity of mind and skill, I will not give you a free pass, Endo! So you have to work hard." Master once said this!

Endo Nakato stared at the detective, he wanted to get the secret of one mind and one skill!

As long as I can defeat this detective in the future, I will definitely understand——

Therefore, Endo remembered what the police called this detective.

—— Detective Shiratori.

Later, Endo managed to get his full name:

Akira Shiratori

This was the name given to the detective who suffered a disastrous defeat with Nakato Endo that night.

It is also the name of the detective that Nakato Endo wants to defeat.

At this point, Endo suddenly woke up from his dream.

He sat up and said the name silently.

He will return to Tokyo for the national competition.

Then he wants to kill a guy named Kiryu Kazuma - maybe this guy also understands what it means to be one with one's mind and skills. He wants to torture out the secrets from Kiryu Kazuma's corpse and learn the secrets that the master has never told.

Then, he would stand in front of the criminal policeman and beat him again.

Then, he will become stronger.

Nowadays, the Endo people have nothing but their obsession that keeps getting stronger.

But this obsession was enough, he wanted nothing more.